"There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God." --Psalm 46:4
- Mark Sumpter
- Serving God with His people at Faith OPC has been a great joy and blessing. When I grow up, I want to umpire Little League Baseball. I will revel on that day when I can say to a 10-year-old boy after four pitched balls, "Take a walk in the sunshine." My wife of 30+ years, Peggy, consistently demonstrates the love of Christ and remains my very best friend. Our six children, our four lovely, sweetie-pie daughters-in-law, and our four grandchildren serve as resident theologians.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Sharpen Your Iron, Boys
“All truth is from God; and consequently, if wicked men have said anything that is true and just, we ought not to reject it; for it has come from God.
Whenever we come upon these matters in secular writers, let that admirable light of truth shining in them teach us that the mind of man, though fallen and perverted from it wholeness, is nevertheless clothed and ornamented with God's excellent gifts. If we regard the Spirit of God as the sole fountain of truth, we shall neither reject the truth itself, nor despise it wherever it shall appear, unless we wish to dishonor the Spirit of God. For by holding the gifts of the Spirit in slight esteem, we contemn and reproach the Spirit himself.”
John Calvin in his Commentary on the Epistles to Timothy, Titus and Philemon, pp. 300-301. Compare also his Institutes of Christian Religion, Book II, 2:15.
I thought this Calvin fella was the Genevan stuff shirt, that old and crotchety pastor who wears the dark suit and never smiles. You know, the depravity guy who tells us that each one of us has enough dynamite of sin in the heart to blow up the world three times over.
G. Mark Sumpter
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